Books That Haunt: Gilead
A review of Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel, Gilead.
Books That Haunt
Books That Haunt: Crime and Punishment
Each Tuesday, until I decide otherwise, TruePravda will feature a different book in the Books That Haunt series. You can view all posts from this series here. There are certain characters in the canon of Western literature that are instantly recognizable by mention of their surname. The names of Crusoe, Nemo, Copperfield, Ahab, Sawyer—all evoke … Read more
Books That Haunt: Wise Blood
Each Tuesday, until I decide otherwise, TruePravda will feature a different book in the Books That Haunt series. You can view all posts from this series here. If, in some parallel universe, I were held down kicking and screaming and demanded to sum up the work of Flannery O’Connor in a single word, the word … Read more
Books That Haunt: The Power and the Glory
Each Tuesday, until I decide otherwise, TruePravda will feature a different book in the Books That Haunt series. You can view all posts from this series here. If Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings really was, as Tolkein himself held, devoid of any hint of allegory; and if Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress displayed allegory to the extreme; … Read more
Books That Haunt: Lancelot
Each Tuesday, until I decide otherwise, TruePravda will feature a different book in the Books That Haunt series. You can view all posts from this series here. Walker Percy’s writing is ready-made to get under one’s skin, and Lancelot is no exception. Far removed from the Knights of the Round Table, Percy’s 1977 novel is … Read more
Books That Haunt: The Brothers Karamazov
Each Tuesday, TruePravda has featured a different book in the Books That Haunt series. This series will be on an indefinite hiatus for a while, but it is sure to surface again. When writing about one’s favorite novel, the temptation is write too much. With that in mind, I’ll try to keep this mini-review brief. … Read more
Books That Haunt: Anna Karenina
Each Tuesday, until I decide otherwise, TruePravda will feature a different book in the Books That Haunt series. “All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” With probably one of the most loaded first lines of any novel ever written, Leo Tolstoy begins his epic Anna Karenina. This … Read more
Books That Haunt: Godric
Each Tuesday, until I decide otherwise, TruePravda will feature a different book in the Books That Haunt series. Five friends I had, and two of them were snakes. So begins Frederick Buechner’s (pronounced “Beekner”) Pulitzer Prize runner-up novel Godric. The novel is loosely based on Godric of Finchale, a 12th century holy man known for, … Read more
Books That Haunt: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Each Tuesday, until I decide otherwise, TruePravda will feature a different book in the Books That Haunt series. Human reactions to adverse situations are varied. There are some who whine and pitch frenzied fits for as long as they can; some who become enshrouded in bitterness and allow that to motivate them; there are others … Read more
Books That Haunt: The Violent Bear It Away
Each Tuesday, until I decide otherwise, TruePravda will feature a different book in the Books That Haunt series. Flannery O’Connor has always been an author whose writings have intrigued me. I first learned of her in an American Literature class in college. One of the volumes of the colossal Norton Anthology of American Literature had … Read more